Hundred Quotes - page 11

There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government. (John F. Kennedy)
One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free. They are not yet freed from the bonds of injustice. They are not yet freed from social and economic oppression. And this nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any one of them. View quote
Aldo Leopold
One hundred nations in the UN have not agreed with us on just about everything that's come before them, where we're involved, and it didn't upset my breakfast at all. View quote
Ronald Reagan
For the first forty days a child is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then the past is erased. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
Five hundred souls. I carried them in my fingers, like suitcases. Or I'd throw them over my shoulder. It was only the the children I carried in my arms. View quote
Markus Zusak
You're far from this. This story is just another few hundred pages of your mind. View quote
Markus Zusak
That is a considerable amount of puppets. But... [Proceeds to summon one hundred puppets of his own] With this, I took down a whole country. View quote
Masashi Kishimoto
I may have been dead for the past hundred and fifty years, Susannah,... but that doesn't mean I don't know how people say good night. And generally, when people say good night, they keep their tongues to themselves. View quote
Meg Cabot
I've only been gone a week," I reminded him. Well, a week's a long time. It's seven days. Which is one hundred and sixty-eight hours. Which is ten thousand, eighty minutes. Which is six hundred thousand, for hundred seconds. (Meg Cabot)
You're not a one hundred dollar bill, not everyone is going to like you. View quote
Meg Cabot
I don't want five hundred billion neural chips. I want guts. View quote
Mary E. Pearson
The main event is freedom. I often wonder if I had the complete freedom to not have to write, if I would write. That's the one mystery that I hope I get to experience. It might be a good idea to retire, since as this delusion of an economy progresses, it seems that if you make ten grand a year or a hundred grand a year, there's absolutely no difference. View quote
Nick Tosches
One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times. View quote
Norton Juster
Jumping out a window five hundred feet above ground is not usually my idea of fun. Especially when I'm wearing bronze wings and flapping my arms like a duck. View quote
Rick Riordan
He could't have survied a hundred foot drop. I'm sorry Annabeth. View quote
Rick Riordan
And when demigods use cell phones, the signals agitate every monster within a hundred miles. It's like sending up a flare: Here I am! Please rearrange my face! View quote
Rick Riordan
I guess it wasn't everyday they see a yellow lifeboat with no engine going a hundred knots an hour, manned by three kids. View quote
Rick Riordan
For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another. View quote
Susanna Clarke
Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since. (Tana French)
I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two hours of dramatic action. View quote
Tom Perrotta
Barefoot conducts his seminars on his houseboat in Sausalito. It costs a hundred dollars to find out why we are on this Earth. You also get a sandwich, but I wasn't hungry that day. John Lennon had just been killed and I think I know why we are on this Earth; it's to find out that what you love the most will be taken away from you, probably due to an error in high places rather than by design. View quote
Philip K. Dick
A hundred years ago, if you had a child out of marriage, you'd be a social disgrace. Today women feel comfortable enough economically and culturally to bring up a child without a recognized commitment from a man. View quote
Helen Fisher
Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it. View quote
Cheryl Strayed